Day: April 13, 2009

The Social Security commissioner said that “governors are hurting their own states, their own citizens” and increasing the backlog by furloughing workers who make disability decisions.

Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said that overall violence in Iraq remained at its lowest levels since 2003 and that the U.S. was still on track to leave by the end of 2011.

As the House and Senate debated the budget earlier this month, Rahm Emanuel’s spacious West Wing office took on the feel of a legislative bazaar.